Trial by your peers?

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So its obvious sony is hard at working designing their game to be as hacker and asshat free as possible how do you do you do it? I'v been looking into LoL(Leage of ledgends) system of trail by your peers, they call it the tribunal. you can read more about it here: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/legal/tribunal

Its goal is to obviously lessen the load on the GM's, so things like a good player been reported as a hacker never make it to the GM's and they can bother with dealing with the proper hackers and griefers.

in A F2P MMO asshaats are inevitable, Higby has talked about this briefly:

as usual the sky isn't falling... empires will have access to different camo patterns which will uniquely incorporate shades of their faction colors, we have spotting systems to enhance that, friendlies will always be on your minimap and have an overhead name / icon by default (dependent on distance) so you always know which guys not to shoot, and grief is being reevaluated and redesigned to fit with the gameplay that a F2P shooter.

No way, just talking about ways to make grief relevant deterrent when someone can easily and freely create new accounts to do stuff like TK everyone defending a base to make it easier for their real team to capture, etc. more punishing for younger characters, forgiveness when actively killing enemies, opt-in for the attacked player to actually assign grief, grief reports in sprees cause faster repercussions, that sort of thing.

Yeah, some form of hardware fingerprinting is something we've been discussing. There are always ways to reassign your MAC address, change that ID file we put on your PC, etc... someone would spend 10 minutes making a little visual basic app that let you switch between "installs" if we put something like that in. It's sadly all about finding the way that makes it as much of a waste of time for the hacker to get around and therefore not worth doing. We have a lot of plans to thwart this sort of stuff, but I'm not going to discuss them for obvious reasons.

(this was all posted in this thread: http://www.planetside-universe.com/f...ighlight=grief



but griefing people isn't just about shooting them, its more than that, its limiting their ability to play the game, while its hard for players to police and judge this in a open world MMO like planetside without proper tools to view the offenders it could be done and misuse of the tools and report system would have to be judged very harshly.

Some forms of this would be standing in front of somebodys shots deliberately to give them greif, driving into somebody to give them grief…planting motion sensors in a spawn tube so people cant get out….


Id like to avoid talking about hacking prevention, its obvious SOE are going to do be doing all they can to combat that. What im asking is would you like to system of players been judged by their peers and people that need to be punished be assigned to to a GM for the final verdict.

Remember, this system while the players can pardon a player, they cant punish them only a GM can do that.

I think it’s a decent system, it would mean GM's don’t have to filter though BS appeals and focus on the ones we see fit for moderation and punishment.


this thread was inspired by:http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/12...nned/#comments it shows you some stats on LOLs tribunal.